My Creative Process

Throughout the project, I struggled with actually coming up with concepts. I found myself overwhelmed with the freedom of choice. It felt like there were too many avenues to choose from. Because of this I lost motivation to work on my project and found myself pushing off doing the work because it felt like too much effort. However, in class we discussed a strategy where we set restrictions on our ideas to  help us come up with concepts. Throughout my Capstone I found this to be a reliable way to come up with creative ideas. It helped make the freedom I was given less expansive and would serve as an unofficial guide (Knecht, 2018). An example of this was when I was trying to come up with my outfits for my dolls. I could not think of anything, and there were too many sources of inspiration to draw from. So I set myself a limit of only using outfits from movies that included stereotypical outfits of East Asian women, an example being Lucy Liu's character from Kill Bill. 

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Knecht, Reed. “Restriction in Design.” Medium, Prototypr, 14 Jan. 2018, https://blog.prototypr.io/restriction-in-design-71b607e074a1.

asam320sallybang, Author. “Lucy Liu.” Asian Women Stereotypes in Film and Shows, 30 Oct. 2017, https://asam320sallybang.wordpress.com/2017/10/30/lucy-liu/.

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